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scattered throngli it, but under a sufficiently higli pressure it is 

 dissolved in the paste or magma, and then it is neither steam, 

 vapour, or water, though frequently spoken of as such. It seems 

 to me that we have no reason to consider it otherwise than an 

 oxide of hydi'ogen, and that we should speak and write of Hydrogen 

 oxide or Hydric oxide dissolved in the magma. Up to the present 

 I have got over the difSculty by writing and speaking of it as H^ 0, 

 but such gives me the feeling of looking pedantic on paper or 

 sounding queer in words. I should be grateful, therefore, for any 

 expression of opinion as to why Hydric oxide would not do, and any 

 suggestion for a better term. H. J. Johnston-Lavis. 



Beaulieu, A.-M., France, Sept. 29, 1897. 



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JAMES WINDOES, OF CHIPPING NORTON. 



Born 1839. Died Sept. 26, 1897. 



We regret to record the death, at the age of 58, of the enthusiastic 

 collector of fossils, James Windoes. Born at Woodstock in 1839, 

 he settled in Chipping Norton some thirty years ago, during the 

 whole of which time he was employed in the glove manufactory 

 of Messrs. B. Bowen and Son. From childhood he manifested 

 a great interest in fossils, but having no advantages of education, 

 he had to pursue his studies entirely unaided. All his spare time 

 was devoted to the search after and study of fossils, and probably 

 no man living had a minuter knowledge of the strata and their 

 organic remains in this part of Oxfordshire. Although of an 

 exceedingly retiring disposition, yet he was always pleased to 

 show his collection to anyone interested in it. Probably few 

 people in Chipping Norton were aware that in a cottage in Albion 

 Street could be seen a collection of fossils and antiquities, unique 

 in its way ; but Mr. Windoes was well known to the late Professor 

 Phillips and Mr. T. Beesley, as well as to Mr. Hudleston, Mr. E. A. 

 Walford, and others, who have acknowledged the valuable assistance 

 rendered by him. 



When the railway was constructed between Banbury and 

 Cheltenham, Mr. Windoes obtained a fine series of fossils from 

 the junction-beds of the Lower and Middle Lias. The specimens 

 of Cypricardia intermedia were exceptionally well preserved. Again, 

 at Hook Norton in the Upper Lias, and at Chipping Norton in 

 various divisions of the Inferior and Great Oolites, he worked long 

 and zealously, obtaining many fossils, and notably fine examples of 

 Trigonia signata from the Inferior Oolite of Heythrop. Another 

 species obtained from this formation was named Trigonia Windoesi 

 by Dr. Lycett. 



Notwithstanding his somewhat humble circumstances, Mr. 

 Windoes could not be induced to dispose of any of his duplicate 

 fossils otherwise than by gift or exchange. The present writer 

 (who is indebted for some of the above particulars to the Banbury 

 Guardian of September 30) well remembers the difficulty he at 

 first had in procuring some specimens for the Museum of Practical 



